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Christopher Emdin Keynote:



After hearing Chris Emdin speak, I felt like I needed to dive deeper into his message. So I listened again ... this time annotating what I heard. Enjoy the notes below as you watch Chris Emdin's keynote...

Precursor:

1. Friends
    Education is the Civil Rights issue of our time.

2. Enemies
    Pitch products to schools.

3. Frenemies
    Speak the language but don't represent certain populations.


WE GOT IT FROM HERE ... THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE

Dr. Christopher Emdin describes the Sudanese Dinka Tribe.

Claiming ownership back over your culture.

Martin Luther King 'Maladjusted' quote.

Be maladjusted. Break the norms of public education. Ask, "Why am I doing what I'm doing when I know it's not working?"  Be bold enough to be maladjusted.

A Tribe Called Quest

Inheriting the trauma of the institution of education. We become adjusted to the fact that young people have trauma. MLK would say, "I never intend to become adjusted to that fact."

SPACE PROGRAM

Hiding under the umbrella of tech rather than focusing on the pedagogy.
Uncommon Cores
Engage in critical conversations with young people, cogenerative dialogues.

Preparing young people to move amongst the stars. Stem economy. Teaching to the lowest level of the new economy: a worker in the stem workforce - instead, provide students with equity.

Allow young people to teach us what we need to do. Creating spaces to allow young people to take the helm of the instruction. Coteaching


WE THE PEOPLE

Chance The Rapper  @chancetherapper 

express intelligence and brilliance

Rachet - the worst of urban, the worst of grammar, rude

cultural expression - context/content/competition

The goal of school- construct and celebrate rachedemic identities.


KILLING SEASON

Hiding behind fake numbers.

Broke people break people. Hurt people hurt people.

Educators seen as less than, and treat students as less than.

#HipHopEd


EGO

Curation

Achievement gaps

Project based learning - social emotional learning - extraction of context

They tried to bury us ... we are diamonds.


Q&A

Why are there so few black male teachers?

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Be loud about good work.
Tell the truth and let the devil be ashamed.

Google - as modern workplace 

The hard part is being yourself.
It's completely possible to listen to hip-hop and have a PHD.

Have courage.

Never become adjusted to inequity and violence.

All youth benefit from being exposed to a more diverse and robust approach to teaching and learning.

Appreciate the complexity.

WE GOT IT FROM HERE ... THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE

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